Brake anchor



No. s, 1927.

BRAKE ANCHOR Filed March 9, 1927 INVENTOR a J ./f LuD/GEYR ELA BRlE ATTORNEY Patented Nev. e, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUDGER E. LA BRIE, F SOTH BEND. INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO BENDIX BRAKE COM- PANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

A CORPORATION 0F ILLINOIS.

BRAKE ANCHOR.

Application lled March 9, 1927. Serial No. 173,825.

This invention relates to brakes, and is illustrated as embodied in an internal expanding automobile brake. An ob]ect -of the invention is to provide an inexpensive but very rigid support for the anchor or anchors of the brake, or forequivalent parts. f Preferably the support is a stamping, having a concave face engaglng the backing plate of the brake, or a. l1ke support, and

1 compressed by the anchor so that it 1s held resiliently under tension.

The above and other objects and features of the invention, including various novel and desirable details of construction, will be apparent from the following description of the illustrative embodiments shown 1n the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical section through lthe brake, just inside the head ofthe. brake drum, and showing the brake shoes inside elevation; i

The present invention relates to the provision of an inexpensive but very rigid support for anchor 28, or anchors 28 and 34, by providing a bracket 38 (Figure 2) or (Figure 4), which is preferably a steel stamping so pressed as to form a concave face engaging the backing plate 12. I prefer to draw outintegral sleeves 42 to embrace anchors 28 and 34, to give an extended bearing therefor.

Each of the anchors or pivots 28 and 34 has a portion such as a collar 44, 46, or 48, engaging the end of the corresponding sleeve 42, and cooperating with a nut on the end of the` anchor in compressing the bracket 38 or 40 against the backing plate to hold the two resiliently together under considerable tension.

While two illustrative embodiments have been described in detail, it is not my intention to limit the scope of the invention to Figure 2 is a partial section on the line fthose particular embodiments, or otherwise 2-2 of Figure 1, showing the brake anchor;

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of 25 Figure 2, showing in side elevation the concave face of the novel bracket; and

Figure 4 is a section corresponding to Figure 2, but showing a double anchor arrangement.

The .brake selected for illustrationds a three-shoe brake of the type fully described in Patent No. 1,567,716, granted Bendix Brake Company on December 29, 1925, on application of A. Y. Dodge. It includes generally a rotatable drum 10, and a backing plate or other support 12 for three shoes 14, 16 and 18 arranged inside of the drum'. As fully explained in the Dodge patent, and as shown in Figures 2 and 4, shoes `14 and 18 are forked to straddle the opposite ends of shoe 16.

The brake is applied, against the resistance of suitable return springs 20 and 22, by means such as al double cam 24.

` Shoes 16 and 18 are connected by a fioat ing pivot 26, and shoe 16 is anchored on a,

fixed pivot 28 passing through clearance\ openings 30 in shoe 14, which openings .are also shown in shoe 18 to make it interchangeable With shoe 14. Shoe 14 is either connected to shoe 16 by a ytioating pivot 32, as in Figure 2, or'else is anchored on a fixed pivot 34 assing through a clearance opening 36 in shoe 16, as in Flgure 4.

than by the terms of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A brake anchor comprising, in combination, a support, a concave bracket arranged with its concave side toward thel support, and an anchor passing through the support and bracket and holding them under tension against each other.

2. A brake anchor comprising, in combi-ll nation, a. support, a bracket, one of which has a concave side facing toward the other, and an anchor passing through the support and bracket and holding them under tension against each other.

3. A stamped bracket for a brake anchor having a concave face and a drawn anchorembracing sleeve projecting on the side opposite the concave face. 4. A stamped bracket for a brake anchor having a concave face and an anchor arranged to' compress the bracket to hold it under resilient tension.

5. A pivot and mounting comprising two elements arranged to rest against each other, at least one of which is concave on the side next the other, a pivot passing through said elements and having a portion engaging one of them on the side opposite the other, and a nut threaded on the pivot and engaging said other element and resiliently com ressing the elements between' itself and sai portion of the' pivot.

6. A mounting .comprising two elements arranged to rest against each other, at least one of which is concave on ,the side next the other, two pivots passing through said eie-v ments near their opposlte ends and each having a portion engaging one of the elements on the side op osite the other, and a nut threaded on eac pivot and engaging said other element and resiliently compressing the elements betweenitself and said porl0 tion of the corresponding pivot.

7. A stampedV b'ke anchor bracket of elongated form and concave on one side and formed to support two anchor pivots;

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto 15 signed my name. v

LUDGER E. LA BRIE. 

